An experimental comparison of the effectiveness of control flow based testing approaches on seeded faults

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3920 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 365-378

  Gupta, Atul ^a   Jalote, Pankaj ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Block coverage; Branch coverage; Experiment; Mutation Operator; Predicate coverage; Software testing; Statistical analysis; Test case generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BLOCK COVERAGE; BRANCH COVERAGE; MUTATION OPERATOR; PREDICATE COVERAGE; SOFTWARE TESTING; TEST CASE GENERATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33745789641     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11691372_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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